Electric automatic stock and chicken waterer



Jan. 5, 1954 w. F. CLEVELAND ELECTRIC AUTOMATIC STOCK AND CHICKEN WATERER Filed March 20, 1951 1 N V EN TOR. fizz/1W f? JZZViZiA A QIIIIC In wk eral appearance Patented Jan. 5, 1954 OFFICE ELECTRIC AUTOMA CHICKEN This invention relates to watering apparatus for stock, chickens or other domestic animals, and the main object thereof is the provision of an efiicient and practical waterer in which the water will be maintained at a constant and suitable temperature and at a constant level.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a waterer for the purpose mentioned, comprising an elongated housing box-like in genand divided transversely into two compartments, one of said compartments comprising a permanently open or exposed trough at which the animals may drink, the other of said compartments containing the water feed and temperature control apparatus and being normally covered and concealed by a slide door to keep the animals away from and out of con tact with the control apparatus.

The above broad as well as additional and more specific objects will be clarified in the followingdescription wherein characters of reference refer to like-numbered parts in the accompanying drawing. It is to be noted that the drawing is intended solely for the purpose of illustration and that it is therefore neither desired nor intended to limit the invention necessarily to any or all of the exact details of construction shown or described except insofar as they may be deemed essential to the invention.

Referring briefly to the drawing, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the stock or chicken waterer of this invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary enlarged perspective view of the device, with parts broken away and partly in section, showing the water level and temperature control apparatus and including a wiring diagram, in part.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view, with parts broken away and partly in section, of the inner or false bottom of the device and including the support of the said false bottom at one end.

Fig. 6 is a more device.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view of a modified form of the device, in which a straightened out Calrod is used to heat the water instead of view taken on the line 2-2 complete wiring diagram of the Referring in detail to the drawings, the numeral I0 indicates an elongated substantially TIC STOCK AND WATERER William F. Cleveland, Rock Falls, 111. Application March 20, 1951, Serial No. 216,600 1 Claim. (01. 219-38) rectangular box-like housing including opposed side walls I I, end walls I Z and I3, and the bottom wall I4. A continuous horizontal eave or lip I5 extends from the tops of the end wall I3 and the adjacent side walls II, the lip I5 on the side walls I I extending only part Way of the length of the said side walls, substantially as shown. A slide cover i 6 having a continuous doubled-backunder edge bead I! extending along its opposed side edges I8 and its front (left-hand, Fig. 1) edge, is slidably mounted over the left-hand end of the housing In by registration of the side wall lip portions I5 in the side edge beading I1. Thus, when the cover I6 is slid home on the lip I5 it covers approximately one-half of the open top of the housing I0.

A false bottom or trough 20 is mounted within the housing I0 and is supported therein on two transverse partitions 2| and 22, the former being positioned close to but spaced from the end wall I2 of the housing 10, and the latter being.

spaced from the other housing end wall I3. Horizontal sheet fillers 23 and 24 cover the otherwise open space between the tops of the trough edges and the side walls of the housing, and between tops of the partition 2I and the end wall I2; these fillers may of course be supplied in any desired form, as, for instance, the fillers 23 may be provided in the form of horizontally outwardly turned extensions of the upper edges of the trough 20, as shown in Fig.4.

A transverse tie rod or member 25 may be provided between the opposed sides of the trough 20 at the position where the opposed sides of the lip I5 terminate, that is, at about the position where the cover I6 terminates when the cover is in place.

A water feed pipe 26 enters the housing I 0 between the end Wall I3 and the partition 22 and passes into the trough 20 through the latter. The pipe 26 terminates in the trough in a float-controlled constant water level valve 21 controlled by the float 28. A thermostat switch 29 is mounted in the space between the partition 22 and the wall I3, and its thermostat or temperature-sensitive element 30 is mounted within the trough 20.

On the outside of the trough 20 a pair of rods 3I are positioned, extending horizontally between the partitions 2I and 22 and spaced from the walls of the trough. A continuous length of heating wire 32 is passed around the bottom of the trough and over the opposed rods 3| to form a series of closely arranged loops 33 over the under and outer surface of the trough. The same will be maintained relatively constant, and of course the level of the water will also be maintained by the float-operated valve 21, the .water being heated by the heat emitted from the loops 33 around the outside of the trough 'as'well as by the coils 34 around a portion of the pipe 26.

Since the cover 16 covers and protects from the animals the water inlet valve, the float 28, and the thermostat unit 30, in fact all of the apparatus for operation of the automatic controls, the exposed end only of the trough between the tie 25 and the partition 2!, indicated by the numeral 38, is accessible to the animals. Thusit is impossible for the animals to come into contact with or disturb the control apparatus. Moreover, since only the free and clear inside of the trough, at 3B, is accessible to the animals, in the event that they should have caused the trough at 36 to accumulate a lot of mud as a result of their standing in it, they may easily root out the mud without disturbing the control apparatus andwithouthaving the latter interfere with their rooting out .of the mud.

In the event that the control apparatus, which is all situated under the cover [5, should re.- quire attention or repair, it-is readily made accessib'le by'sliding away the cover 1 6.

In the "modification shown iniEig. '7, in place of the loops :33 of the wire 32, previously described, a straightened out length of Calrod 39 is used to heat the water, .and it is supported in the trough under the cover 16 on iuprights 31 and38.

It is apparent from the above that an efficient waterer for domestic animals or fowl has been provided, which will function continuously without requiring any undue attention from the owner.

Obviously, modifications in form or structure may be made without departing from th spirit or scope of the invention.

Ielaim:

A device of the class described comprising an elongated housing having a bottom wall, opposed side walls and opposed end walls and open at the top, a'trough mounted within the housing and spaced from said bottom wall, said side walls and .said end Walls, transverse partitions in said housing forming end walls for said trough, a water inlet pipe leading into said trough, electrical means for heating the water in said trough, a connector plug connected with said electrical means, said plug being adapted to be connected to an electric supply socket, said electrical means comprising a single length of heating wire, said device having opposed longitudinal rods sup portedbetweensaid-partitions and positioned between the sides .of the trough and the side walls of the housing close .to but spaced from the outside upper edges of said trough, said wire being simultaneously trained aboutsaid'rods and passed transversely around the outside surface of said trough to provide "longitudinally spaced transverse loops.

F, CLEVELAND.

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